Digital Mapping Facilitator
Digital Mapping Facilitator
You will help fulfill the Village Church Planting (VCP) vision of a church in every African Village by 2050, by effectively empowering VCP church planters and trainers to map the following: villages with churches, villages without churches, and villages with Christ followers, but no churches.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities-
- Pray faithfully for the fulfillment of the VCP 2050 vision.
- Represent VCP to the Coalition of The Willing and its technical support personnel.
- Understand in depth the front end and much of the back end of the iShare mapping system used by the Coalition of the Willing to map and categorize villages.
- Facilitate use of the iShare mapping system by VCP church planters, trainers and coordinators by publicizing, training, troubleshooting and coaching appropriate VCP staff in the system’s use for surveys, data entry, reporting and ministry decision making.
- Provides quarterly updates of iShare village maps at the country level to Supervisors and national Coordinators.
- Advises VCP leaders concerning mapping needs and opportunities.
- In communication with OMS statistics and iShare, maintains a map showing the location of VCP training centers.
- Encourages church planting in unchurched villages based on the data found on iShare maps.
Education and Skills-
- Bachelor’s degree in geography, missions, and/or adult education ideal.
- Has demonstrable skill with spreadsheets and cloud-based data entry.
- Able to easily learn and master the iShare system and Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping.
- Demonstrates ability to work and communicate effectively in cross cultural situations and through the use of translators, both digital and human.
- Very comfortable helping non-digital natives learn to use and master digital tools to fulfill the Great Commission.
- Comfortable working behind the scenes and up front in training and vision casting situations.
This is a support-based position that involves raising financial support through ministry partners for salary and other expenses.
About Us
One Mission Society is an international, interdenominational missions organization dedicated to making disciples of Jesus Christ around the world. With ministry in more than 70 countries, One Mission Society partners alongside local believers to multiply disciples, leaders, churches, and missionaries. We’re passionate about seeing the Great Commission fulfilled, and we’re looking for teammates who want to use their gifts and abilities for kingdom impact.
Requirements for all roles:
One Mission Society is an international, interdenominational missions organization dedicated to making disciples of Jesus Christ around the world. With ministry in more than 70 countries, One Mission Society partners alongside local believers to multiply disciples, leaders, churches, and missionaries. We’re passionate about seeing the Great Commission fulfilled, and we’re looking for teammates who want to use their gifts and abilities for kingdom impact.
Requirements for all roles:
• Committed follower of Jesus Christ.
• Actively involved in a local evangelical church.
• Interested in missions.
• Actively involved in a local evangelical church.
• Interested in missions.